The serene setting of one of New York City’s first African American communities is the inspiration for a Juneteenth commemoration taking place in Central Park on Sunday. Seneca Village was ...

By Lola Fadulu Before the Civil War, a predominantly Black community flourished in Seneca Village, on the land that is now Central Park. On Sunday, as part of a commemoration of Juneteenth ...

On June 15, the Central Park Conservancy carried out its third annual “Juneteenth in Seneca Village” celebration. The event, held at at the Seneca Village Landscape, aimed to pay tribute to ...

More than 1,600 people were displaced by Central Park, including Manhattan’s first known community of African-American property owners, Seneca Village. From 1825 to 1857, Seneca Village was located ...

Seneca Village, a community of predominately Black property owners in what’s now Central Park, is being commemorated to mark the 200-year anniversary of its founding. A map from cartographer Egbert ...

There was once a thriving village called Seneca located in what became Central Park, between 81st and 89th Street on the West Side. It wasn’t a shantytown or slum, like the rest of the settlements.

“Of the 100 black New Yorkers eligible to vote in 1845,” reads a 2018 article by the Central Park Conservancy, “10 lived in Seneca Village.” Weston Sprott, the dean and director of the ...

Mayor Eric Adams visits Seneca Village at Central Park as a Juneteenth celebration is held in New York City. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Mayor Eric Adams was right to honor the ...

Black property ownership remained rare in New York during this time, indicating the relative prosperity of Seneca Village’s inhabitants. Part of the impetus for constructing Central Park was the ...

Community leaders work to preserve the story and legacy of Seneca Village, Manhattan's first significant settlement of Black property owners, in Central Park. February 27, 2024 Additional Live Streams ...